Gov. Scott decided to pick on anthropologists: “We’re spending a lot of money on education, and when you look at the results, it’s not great…. Do you want to use your tax money to educate more people who can’t get jobs in anthropology? I don’t.â€
Anthropologists struck back.
“My colleagues and I in the Anthropology Department at USF encourage our Governor to do his homework on the modern discipline of anthropology before making another casual but ill-informed remark.”
“Perhaps you are unaware that anthropologists are leaders in our nation’s top science fields, making groundbreaking discoveries in areas as varied as public health, human genetics, legal history, bilingualism, the African American heritage, and infant learning.”
It took him a little while, but the president of UF also spoke up (without naming the name of Rick Scott).